IP Journal of Urology, Nephrology and Hepatology Science

Genitourinary tract – The pandora’s box of the stones

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Article Type : Original Article

Author Details: Sanjay P Dhangar*,Manisha Shengal

Volume : 4

Issue : 1

Online ISSN : XXXX

Print ISSN : XXXX

Article First Page : 11

Article End Page : 17

Abstract

Stone formation is a common disease. The prevalence of stones is consistently increasing over the past 50 years with prevalence rates of upto 14.8%.  For the treatment of stones in the genitourinary tract many medical and surgical strategies exist. Minimal invasive surgeries are enough to deal with around 99% of the cases. Open surgery is needed only in 1–5.4% of cases which means that open stone surgery still has its role.
There are no studies till now where various shapes of the stones are described. Few shapes related to the stones are well described like the shape of a staghorn stone, shape of a jackstone of urinary bladder as well as the kidney. We here open up the pandora’s box of the genitourinary tract and describe shapes of various funny and interesting shapes of stones as seen on x-ray KUB, IVP, CT and endoscopic images seen during surgical treatment and after open surgeries. We will also elaborate whether where open surgery or the endourological surgery is needed. This is first of its kind of a paper for this purpose only.

Keywords: Stone shapes, GU tract stones, Staghorn stone, Urinary stone shapes, Urinary stone pandora’s box.

 

Doi No:-10.18231